Last time, Ed just became a believer of Sif Muna and was going all spider on anyone who so much as gave him the wrong look. Today we're continuing to dive down into the depths of the dungeon.
A second one? These things never appear this often. I guess I'll hold onto it in case of emergency.
I'd pee on your altar right now, Trog, if I had that command available.
◊ Oh, this is going to be fun.
◊ See that green water mixed with the blue water? Means we're near a special thing. A very special thing.
These things are called portals.
◊ May not look like one but they have a special function, they take you somewhere and they only do it once, leaving that place means you can't return. In this case, this is a glorified man cover for the sewer area. What does the sewer contain? Lots of rats for one.
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Meet the big fish.
◊ May or may not be a bigger fish somewhere out there, but these guys can bit pretty hard for when they appear. Still, just get to some dry land and kill it. Another new enemy, the Big Kobold.
◊ They're basically regular kobolds, except bigger, meaner, and stronger.
Main thing to note about portals, they contain loot. Nice loot.
◊ See these? It means surviving that much longer. And yeah, that was pretty much it.
◊ Some sewers tend to be much bigger than this one. Still, portals aren't that big but they usually offer some unique challenge that typically isn't seen else where, in this case, lots of water that slows down players. Portals do get more interesting later though.
Whelp, it's final, anything without poison resistance is going to be dead by the time it reaches me. I got this from a scorpion by the way.
Oh crap, it's a bear.
◊ These guys are strong, berserk when low on health, and can generally wreck squishies. Edward is currently semi-squishy, so I play it smart and toss a potion of confusion, then a potion of poison and get far, far away until the game tells me I'm feeling more experienced. Looks like he was guarding a royal jelly and a honeycomb. The honeycomb is like the royal jelly but without the nice status ailment removal. Still, it's gives lots of nutrition, so we're grabbing it.
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Oh hey, a wand, let's try it out.
r - a wand of digging {zapped: 1}
This is a wand of digging and if you aren't going into the earth school of magic, you'll need it if you want to get through various walls and into some potentially hidden vaults. It is quite nice.
m - a +1 rod of venom (12/12) (in hand)
NICE! This is a rod, it's basically a boom stick that comes with magic in it. The +1 denote how fast it restores its own MP and the 12/12 is its current pool of MP. Seriously, it can heal poison, shoot a dangerous bolt of poison or the even better poison arrow and can summon up a cloud of poison.
◊ For the record Poison Arrow, even if the enemy resists poison, will wreck whatever it hits because it has absurd damage potential.
Evocations, by the way, is a skill that shows how well you can handle complex items like rods. Dwarves being dwarves are quite good at it, however, Ed's just a sludge elf and average with stuff like this but still, we'll be using it a lot.
This is a spore (and to the right is a bumblebee)
◊. Spores are dangerous because they're essentially grenades. Touch one and they'll explode. Worse, they come right for you and they're always the symptom of a funal colony that's out to take over a floor, spore by spore. The correct way to remove them is to attack them long range so they don't blow up in your face.
Bumblebees are a different kind of problem, they come in swarms and may even be a sign of there being a mini hive on the floor. They also have poison and will kill you in a war of attrition. Having poison resistance removes all credit they may have as a threat though.
So these are bally-stormy-cities.
◊ These two aren't active but will eventually start glowing and producing their own spores so just destroy them, destroy them now!
The explosion of spores engulfs the ballistomycete.
You are confused.
Your honeycomb is covered with spores!
Ouch! That really hurt!
You die...
Argh... and there was a million ways for me to survive that one too. Whelp, so much for showing off bland hands, but you know, go play a transmuter yourself, they are great fun to play as.
